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f. TVTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
1012 LQWRY UKC
COLUMBIA, MO. 65211
X
75th Year No. 36 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, October 25, 1983 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents
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From our win services
BEIRUT American Marines and French
soldiers continued their grim work Monday
as they pulled the bodies of their comrades
from the dusty rubble of two buildings blown
to pieces by terrorist explosions.
Authorities concede they do not expect to
find those responsible for the attacks.
In Washington, President Reagan ruled
out a combat role for American troops in
Lebanon but declared the Marine force must
stay to protect the Middle East from " the
tyranny of forces hostile to the West"
Reagan blamed " international criminals
and thugs" for the terrorist bombing mat
killed at least 191 Marine peace- keepe- rs in
Beirut It was the worst loss of American
military lives since the Vietnam War.
Complete coverage .. Page 3A
The attack " will not go unpunished," Rea-gan
vowed. " The United States will not be in-timidated
byterrorists "
Although Reagan obliquely fingered the
Kremlin, Secretary of State George Shultz
pointed directly to Soviet Union as the prime
meddler in the oil- ric- h region
Reagan defended the U S. military com-mitment
to the multinational peace- keepin- g
force in Lebanon in an appearance before a
group of journalists.
" It would be a disaster if a force took over
the Middle East, and a force is ready to do
that, as witness to what has taken place in
Yemen, Ethiopia and now the forces seve-ral
thousand in Syria," Reagan said " The
free world cannot stand by and see that hap-pen."
i
Shultz, briefing members of Congress on
the bombing, reinforced the admuustraion's
view, stating, " It is not difficult to detect
who are the enemies of peace in Lebanon "
" The Soviet Union, Syria and Iran," Shultz
saitiV'That should tell you something about
what is going on in Lebanon, why it is part of
something much larger than Lebanon, and
why we have a stake in the outcome "
Shultz said he will go to Europe this week
to consult " urgently and intensively" with
the foreign ministers of Britain, France and
Italy on the future course of the peace- keepin- g
force. Italian officials said the meetings
would be held in Rome
Reagan said enlarging the 1,600- memb- er
Marine contingent might be warranted " if it
would help the mission they're performing "
But he ruled out any change in the mission
of the multinational peace- keepin- g force, in-cluding
a more active combat role
As night fell for the second time on the
gruesome task in Beirut, the American
death toll was put at 191 The number of
wounded Americans still had not been deter-mined,
officials said, but 75 men have been
evacuated to hospitals in West Germany,
Italy and Cyprus
The Pentagon identified two U S Army
soldiers as among the wounded, it was the
first indication soldiers were among the vic-tims
French officials said 23 paratroopers had
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The search for bodies continues in the rubble of the Marines' BLT building in Beirut. " twih
Marine hoping
duty won't call
By Michael Sawlckl
Mlasourlan staff writer
Marine Capt Clem Matylmski recruits of-ficers
for the corps in Missouri He also has
the gnm duty of breaking the news of a Ma-rine's
death to his relatives
Last year, Matylmski donned a dress- blu- e
Leatherneck uniform and made what is
known m the business as a " casualty call "
It was the only such call he has made, and he
remembers the experience vividly
" I received an order to inform a family of
a Marine that had a serious disease," he
said. " The doctors felt that things could go
either good or bad for the man but thought
his chances weren't good "
Matylmski isn't sure if the man survived
Today, Matylinksi is one of many Marines
across the nation waiting to learn if they
must carry bad news to relatives of service-I
men who died or were injured Sunday in the
Beruit bombing Identification of the Ma-rines
buried in the rubble has been slow in
coming
Matylmski said the duty is difficult to pre-pare
for.
" I was prepared for the worst," he said
" It is something you have to consider, espe-cially
in the death calls The emotions could
range from a thank- yo- u to a complete break-up
of the family "
The policy is a rigid one
" No public announcement of casualties
can be made before the next of km is person-ally
notifed by us," said Capt Dale Dye at
the 8th Marine Corps Recruiting District's
headquarters in New Orleans Missouri is in
the 8th District
Word of casualties travels from Beruit to
Marine Corps headquarters in Washington,
D C , and then to the regional district head
quarters that covers the area that the Ma-rine
is from.
Concerned families can call two numbers
for the most up- to- d- ate information Fami-lies
of Marines can call 202- 694- 20- 00, Navy
families can call 1- 800- 36-
8- 3202 Officals ask
that only direct relatives use the numbers
The orders for casualty calls began com-ing
in at midnight for the staff of more than
20 officers stationed at the Marine Reserve
Battalion in St Louis
" So far we've had to make only three calls
from the Beruit thing," said Lt Col Jack
ZdanowskioftheSt Louis reserve battalion
" With this type of incident and with the
number of men involved, we are anticipating
there will be more calls "
A casualty call is made to the next of km
listed on a Marine's files
" Part of the reason that an offical list of
those killed hasn't been circulated is that
personnel files for the Marines stationed in
Beruit were destroyed in the attack," Dye
said
" We want to be accurate about this for ob-vious
reasons We want to make sure we are
correct" Zdanowski said " Imagine the
gnef you could cause if you were incorrect"
The Columbia recruiter said a casualty
call is a troubling assignment
" I asked myself how I would react if I
were in the family's situation, how would I
want to be told," he said about last year's
casualty call
" All too often your own emotions come into
play," he said " The family had already
been made aware of the situation and the
call had added a personal touch "
He added, " I accept the duty as as part of
my job as something I just have to do "
Combat or withdrawal: no easy options for Marines in Lebanon
ByDrewMkSdleton
NawVoritTlmca
NEW YORK The situation after the loll-ing
of American Marines and sailors in Bei-rut
Sunday emphasizes the wisdom of a com-ment
by Field Marshal Earl Alexander in
World War II: for the military, he said, there
are " no easy options."
At one extreme, according to senior Amer-ican
officers, the American command must
consider the withdrawal of the force to the
amphibious landing craft offshore. The
Americans then would have to rely on the
guns of the battleship New Jersey and the
aircraft of the earner Eisenhower to re-spond
to infringements of the cease- fir- e by
Druze and Shiite militia units.
At the other extreme, the Americans say,
is an unleashing of the Marines for active
combat patrols beyond their present perime-ters.
Such patrols, a senior officer said, inev-itably
would involve fights between the Ma-rines
and guerrilla forces
He said he had no doubts that the Marines,
even without reinforcement could handle
such situations.
Whether there is political and popular sup-port
in the United States for such actions is
another question. The officers said they
thought there would be a rapid revival of
what they call " the Vietnam syndrome"
should the Marines engage in active opera-tions.
The American officers said they thought
there would be an outcry in the United States
against being involved m " another Viet-nam."
There is little similarity between the
military situation in Lebanon and that m
Vietnam in the early 1960s, they said, but
they fear the public would not recognize this
Active combat patrols, which probably
would involve the pursuit of guerrillas into
the hills beyond Beirut, would raise an omi-nous
military problem. According to U S and
Atlantic alliance intelligence services, Soviet
advisers and technicians are stationed with
the Syrian forces in Lebanon.
These sources said there were 5,000 to 7,000
Soviets in Syria, with about 100 of them act-ing
as advisers for the Syrian forces in Leb-anon
Although some of these Soviet advisers
are technicians stationed m Syria to main
tain the SA-- 5 missiles introduced by the Sovi-ets
earlier this year, at least one Soviet in-fantry
battalion is reported to be in the
country, ostensibly to guard the SA-- 5 instal-lations
The presence of the Soviet troops and ad-visers
with the forward Syrian forces in Leb-anon
raises the possibility of clashes be-tween
American and Soviet troops,
according to American military and diplo-matic
sources
The off- the- c- uff estimation by American
diplomats and intelligence officers was that
the Soviet troops would avoid such encoun-ters
But in the fluid and complex situation in
Lebanon, one source said, no one can be sure
that such clashes would be avoided.
Another option would be to move the Ma-rines
out of their positions around the Beirut
airport to areas farther inland, where they
might be less exposed to hostile fire
Such a move would have the advantage of
reducing the Marines' exposure to snipers,
but it would not, in the opinion of some senior
officers, strengthen their role as a peace-keeping
force Their view was that the air-port
must be kept free of guerrilla attacks as
a symbol of the sovereignty of the govern-ment
of President Amm Gemayel
Militarily, the American sources said, the
withdrawal of the Marines to their ships and
the assumption by the Navy of punitive ac-tion
against the guerrillas has little to rec-ommend
it
The guerrillas' penchant for hit- and- r- un
attacks against the Lebanese army would be
encouraged by the absence of the Marines
Bead newborn
found in trash
By Julie Btonquiat
Mlasourtan ataf f writer
The body of a newborn child was
discovered in a trash can on the Uni-versity
campus Monday morning.
Dr. Jay Dix, Boone County medi-cal
examiner, described the body as
that of a white male, eight weeks
premature. He said the body was
found in the parking lot west of the
Mid- Misso- uri Mental Health Center,
803 Stadium Road.
Dix performed an autopsy Mon--
day. " There were no signs of foul
I play," be said. , I The Columbia Police Department i
I the Boone County Sheriffs Depart- -
ment end the Fulton Police Depart-- 1
ment are being called in to lnvesfa- -
M gate the incident, said Maj. Jack
H watring of the University police.
H The departments form part of the
H Mkl- MIssc- uri Major Case Squad.
H The large number of police em it cera are needed, Watring said, to
3 quickly follow up on leads before evi- W- k
denceis erased.
The BEST
Legislators turn test- take- rs for an hour and pass
By ReneeTawa
Stale capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY A tele-vision
reporter playfully reached
for Rep. Ken Jacob's palms and
nodded knowingly.
" Uh, hah," she said. " Sweaty
palms."
But Jacob, D- Colum-bia,
and
nine other members of the House
Interim Education Committee
weren't tackling any of the heated
issues facing the Legislature in the
special session.
Instead, they were facing the
same challenge presented to all
Missouri eighth graders: the Basic
Essential Skills Test
Because of the controversy
about requiring high school stu-dents
to pass the BEST before
graduation, committee members
wanted to judge the test for them-selves,
said Chairman Gary
Sharp e, D- Hann- ibal
But like a group of eighth grad-ers,
legislators moaned about hav-ing
to take the test. Under the
glare of television lights, Jacob
pulled a calculator from his brief
case in preparation for the math
section.
Rep Pat Dougherty, D-- St
Louis, claimed he had a note from
his mother excusing him from the
test
Two minutes into the test, Jacob
slammed his test booklet shut and
leaned back in his chair .
" I'm done," he announced.
" Yeah, with question No 1,"
Dougherty shot back.
Sharpe, a former school teacher,
had to admonish the legislators
with a stern " shhhh" before they
settled down
One hour later, everyone had
completed the test, which included
questions un identifying a trape-zoid,
government documents and
the proper checking account stubs
Last year, nearly 4,000 high
school students of the 57,193 who
graduated did so without passing
the BEST. Students must score 75
percent of 117 questions to pass
Charles Foster of the Education
Department said legislators taking
the test now can answer questions
from worried constituents whose
children may be required to pass
the BESTbeginningin July 1987.
The results ranged from a per-fect
score to minus five More
grumbling was heard as Foster
read the correct answers and leg-islators
rechecked their missed
questions
" So that's a parallelogram, eh,"
Dougherty wondered aloud
" Pushed the wrong button on the
calculator," grumbled Rep Ever-ett
Brown, D- Maryv-ille.
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GroupWtells panel
about improvements
By Margaret Huntar
Mlsaourian ataH writer
The Gty Council subcommittee
meeting Monday with Group W rep-resentatives
was unexpectedly
cheerful
" Substantial problems remain,"
said the subcommittee chairman,
Fourth Ward Councilman Pat Bar-nes
" But we've made a lot of pro-gress
and that's what counts ' '
" When the company truck comes
down the road, we want to see
smiles, not jeers, and we're working
on it," said Bruce Williams, Group
W district sales and marketing man-ager.
Council members listened to
Group Ws improvements in the
areas of billing, system outages and
customer service Also discussed
was the possibility of alternatives to
the monthly charge for remote con-trol
units and adding a superstation
i
The most noticeable improvement
since an Oct 7 public hearing was in
customer service Group W reported
that service calls have dropped to
less than half the level during the
week before the hearing
The majority of the complaints, lo-cal
manager Andrew Moore said,
still have to do with fine tuning ard
customer education Traffic in
Group Ws office lobby also has
shrunk Barnes reported receiving
only four complaints, First Ward
Councilman Al Tacker said he re-ceived
npne.
The most noticeable unresolved is-sue
was mat of the $ 4 99 monthly
charge for remote controls that al-low
the viewer to change channels
without movmg to the set The serv-ice
was free before new converter
boxes were installed, and the in-creased
cost has been called an lUe--
So GROUP W. PagsSA

f. TVTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
1012 LQWRY UKC
COLUMBIA, MO. 65211
X
75th Year No. 36 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, October 25, 1983 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents
-- aaaBaBaaBBBBieaeaeaaeMeaeHiiaMaeiawaaeioaeiaiMaaHiaKieaaMeaaaeiaaBaMaaaaavWBMeaaaana
From our win services
BEIRUT American Marines and French
soldiers continued their grim work Monday
as they pulled the bodies of their comrades
from the dusty rubble of two buildings blown
to pieces by terrorist explosions.
Authorities concede they do not expect to
find those responsible for the attacks.
In Washington, President Reagan ruled
out a combat role for American troops in
Lebanon but declared the Marine force must
stay to protect the Middle East from " the
tyranny of forces hostile to the West"
Reagan blamed " international criminals
and thugs" for the terrorist bombing mat
killed at least 191 Marine peace- keepe- rs in
Beirut It was the worst loss of American
military lives since the Vietnam War.
Complete coverage .. Page 3A
The attack " will not go unpunished," Rea-gan
vowed. " The United States will not be in-timidated
byterrorists "
Although Reagan obliquely fingered the
Kremlin, Secretary of State George Shultz
pointed directly to Soviet Union as the prime
meddler in the oil- ric- h region
Reagan defended the U S. military com-mitment
to the multinational peace- keepin- g
force in Lebanon in an appearance before a
group of journalists.
" It would be a disaster if a force took over
the Middle East, and a force is ready to do
that, as witness to what has taken place in
Yemen, Ethiopia and now the forces seve-ral
thousand in Syria," Reagan said " The
free world cannot stand by and see that hap-pen."
i
Shultz, briefing members of Congress on
the bombing, reinforced the admuustraion's
view, stating, " It is not difficult to detect
who are the enemies of peace in Lebanon "
" The Soviet Union, Syria and Iran," Shultz
saitiV'That should tell you something about
what is going on in Lebanon, why it is part of
something much larger than Lebanon, and
why we have a stake in the outcome "
Shultz said he will go to Europe this week
to consult " urgently and intensively" with
the foreign ministers of Britain, France and
Italy on the future course of the peace- keepin- g
force. Italian officials said the meetings
would be held in Rome
Reagan said enlarging the 1,600- memb- er
Marine contingent might be warranted " if it
would help the mission they're performing "
But he ruled out any change in the mission
of the multinational peace- keepin- g force, in-cluding
a more active combat role
As night fell for the second time on the
gruesome task in Beirut, the American
death toll was put at 191 The number of
wounded Americans still had not been deter-mined,
officials said, but 75 men have been
evacuated to hospitals in West Germany,
Italy and Cyprus
The Pentagon identified two U S Army
soldiers as among the wounded, it was the
first indication soldiers were among the vic-tims
French officials said 23 paratroopers had
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The search for bodies continues in the rubble of the Marines' BLT building in Beirut. " twih
Marine hoping
duty won't call
By Michael Sawlckl
Mlasourlan staff writer
Marine Capt Clem Matylmski recruits of-ficers
for the corps in Missouri He also has
the gnm duty of breaking the news of a Ma-rine's
death to his relatives
Last year, Matylmski donned a dress- blu- e
Leatherneck uniform and made what is
known m the business as a " casualty call "
It was the only such call he has made, and he
remembers the experience vividly
" I received an order to inform a family of
a Marine that had a serious disease," he
said. " The doctors felt that things could go
either good or bad for the man but thought
his chances weren't good "
Matylmski isn't sure if the man survived
Today, Matylinksi is one of many Marines
across the nation waiting to learn if they
must carry bad news to relatives of service-I
men who died or were injured Sunday in the
Beruit bombing Identification of the Ma-rines
buried in the rubble has been slow in
coming
Matylmski said the duty is difficult to pre-pare
for.
" I was prepared for the worst," he said
" It is something you have to consider, espe-cially
in the death calls The emotions could
range from a thank- yo- u to a complete break-up
of the family "
The policy is a rigid one
" No public announcement of casualties
can be made before the next of km is person-ally
notifed by us," said Capt Dale Dye at
the 8th Marine Corps Recruiting District's
headquarters in New Orleans Missouri is in
the 8th District
Word of casualties travels from Beruit to
Marine Corps headquarters in Washington,
D C , and then to the regional district head
quarters that covers the area that the Ma-rine
is from.
Concerned families can call two numbers
for the most up- to- d- ate information Fami-lies
of Marines can call 202- 694- 20- 00, Navy
families can call 1- 800- 36-
8- 3202 Officals ask
that only direct relatives use the numbers
The orders for casualty calls began com-ing
in at midnight for the staff of more than
20 officers stationed at the Marine Reserve
Battalion in St Louis
" So far we've had to make only three calls
from the Beruit thing," said Lt Col Jack
ZdanowskioftheSt Louis reserve battalion
" With this type of incident and with the
number of men involved, we are anticipating
there will be more calls "
A casualty call is made to the next of km
listed on a Marine's files
" Part of the reason that an offical list of
those killed hasn't been circulated is that
personnel files for the Marines stationed in
Beruit were destroyed in the attack," Dye
said
" We want to be accurate about this for ob-vious
reasons We want to make sure we are
correct" Zdanowski said " Imagine the
gnef you could cause if you were incorrect"
The Columbia recruiter said a casualty
call is a troubling assignment
" I asked myself how I would react if I
were in the family's situation, how would I
want to be told," he said about last year's
casualty call
" All too often your own emotions come into
play," he said " The family had already
been made aware of the situation and the
call had added a personal touch "
He added, " I accept the duty as as part of
my job as something I just have to do "
Combat or withdrawal: no easy options for Marines in Lebanon
ByDrewMkSdleton
NawVoritTlmca
NEW YORK The situation after the loll-ing
of American Marines and sailors in Bei-rut
Sunday emphasizes the wisdom of a com-ment
by Field Marshal Earl Alexander in
World War II: for the military, he said, there
are " no easy options."
At one extreme, according to senior Amer-ican
officers, the American command must
consider the withdrawal of the force to the
amphibious landing craft offshore. The
Americans then would have to rely on the
guns of the battleship New Jersey and the
aircraft of the earner Eisenhower to re-spond
to infringements of the cease- fir- e by
Druze and Shiite militia units.
At the other extreme, the Americans say,
is an unleashing of the Marines for active
combat patrols beyond their present perime-ters.
Such patrols, a senior officer said, inev-itably
would involve fights between the Ma-rines
and guerrilla forces
He said he had no doubts that the Marines,
even without reinforcement could handle
such situations.
Whether there is political and popular sup-port
in the United States for such actions is
another question. The officers said they
thought there would be a rapid revival of
what they call " the Vietnam syndrome"
should the Marines engage in active opera-tions.
The American officers said they thought
there would be an outcry in the United States
against being involved m " another Viet-nam."
There is little similarity between the
military situation in Lebanon and that m
Vietnam in the early 1960s, they said, but
they fear the public would not recognize this
Active combat patrols, which probably
would involve the pursuit of guerrillas into
the hills beyond Beirut, would raise an omi-nous
military problem. According to U S and
Atlantic alliance intelligence services, Soviet
advisers and technicians are stationed with
the Syrian forces in Lebanon.
These sources said there were 5,000 to 7,000
Soviets in Syria, with about 100 of them act-ing
as advisers for the Syrian forces in Leb-anon
Although some of these Soviet advisers
are technicians stationed m Syria to main
tain the SA-- 5 missiles introduced by the Sovi-ets
earlier this year, at least one Soviet in-fantry
battalion is reported to be in the
country, ostensibly to guard the SA-- 5 instal-lations
The presence of the Soviet troops and ad-visers
with the forward Syrian forces in Leb-anon
raises the possibility of clashes be-tween
American and Soviet troops,
according to American military and diplo-matic
sources
The off- the- c- uff estimation by American
diplomats and intelligence officers was that
the Soviet troops would avoid such encoun-ters
But in the fluid and complex situation in
Lebanon, one source said, no one can be sure
that such clashes would be avoided.
Another option would be to move the Ma-rines
out of their positions around the Beirut
airport to areas farther inland, where they
might be less exposed to hostile fire
Such a move would have the advantage of
reducing the Marines' exposure to snipers,
but it would not, in the opinion of some senior
officers, strengthen their role as a peace-keeping
force Their view was that the air-port
must be kept free of guerrilla attacks as
a symbol of the sovereignty of the govern-ment
of President Amm Gemayel
Militarily, the American sources said, the
withdrawal of the Marines to their ships and
the assumption by the Navy of punitive ac-tion
against the guerrillas has little to rec-ommend
it
The guerrillas' penchant for hit- and- r- un
attacks against the Lebanese army would be
encouraged by the absence of the Marines
Bead newborn
found in trash
By Julie Btonquiat
Mlasourtan ataf f writer
The body of a newborn child was
discovered in a trash can on the Uni-versity
campus Monday morning.
Dr. Jay Dix, Boone County medi-cal
examiner, described the body as
that of a white male, eight weeks
premature. He said the body was
found in the parking lot west of the
Mid- Misso- uri Mental Health Center,
803 Stadium Road.
Dix performed an autopsy Mon--
day. " There were no signs of foul
I play," be said. , I The Columbia Police Department i
I the Boone County Sheriffs Depart- -
ment end the Fulton Police Depart-- 1
ment are being called in to lnvesfa- -
M gate the incident, said Maj. Jack
H watring of the University police.
H The departments form part of the
H Mkl- MIssc- uri Major Case Squad.
H The large number of police em it cera are needed, Watring said, to
3 quickly follow up on leads before evi- W- k
denceis erased.
The BEST
Legislators turn test- take- rs for an hour and pass
By ReneeTawa
Stale capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY A tele-vision
reporter playfully reached
for Rep. Ken Jacob's palms and
nodded knowingly.
" Uh, hah," she said. " Sweaty
palms."
But Jacob, D- Colum-bia,
and
nine other members of the House
Interim Education Committee
weren't tackling any of the heated
issues facing the Legislature in the
special session.
Instead, they were facing the
same challenge presented to all
Missouri eighth graders: the Basic
Essential Skills Test
Because of the controversy
about requiring high school stu-dents
to pass the BEST before
graduation, committee members
wanted to judge the test for them-selves,
said Chairman Gary
Sharp e, D- Hann- ibal
But like a group of eighth grad-ers,
legislators moaned about hav-ing
to take the test. Under the
glare of television lights, Jacob
pulled a calculator from his brief
case in preparation for the math
section.
Rep Pat Dougherty, D-- St
Louis, claimed he had a note from
his mother excusing him from the
test
Two minutes into the test, Jacob
slammed his test booklet shut and
leaned back in his chair .
" I'm done," he announced.
" Yeah, with question No 1,"
Dougherty shot back.
Sharpe, a former school teacher,
had to admonish the legislators
with a stern " shhhh" before they
settled down
One hour later, everyone had
completed the test, which included
questions un identifying a trape-zoid,
government documents and
the proper checking account stubs
Last year, nearly 4,000 high
school students of the 57,193 who
graduated did so without passing
the BEST. Students must score 75
percent of 117 questions to pass
Charles Foster of the Education
Department said legislators taking
the test now can answer questions
from worried constituents whose
children may be required to pass
the BESTbeginningin July 1987.
The results ranged from a per-fect
score to minus five More
grumbling was heard as Foster
read the correct answers and leg-islators
rechecked their missed
questions
" So that's a parallelogram, eh,"
Dougherty wondered aloud
" Pushed the wrong button on the
calculator," grumbled Rep Ever-ett
Brown, D- Maryv-ille.
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GroupWtells panel
about improvements
By Margaret Huntar
Mlsaourian ataH writer
The Gty Council subcommittee
meeting Monday with Group W rep-resentatives
was unexpectedly
cheerful
" Substantial problems remain,"
said the subcommittee chairman,
Fourth Ward Councilman Pat Bar-nes
" But we've made a lot of pro-gress
and that's what counts ' '
" When the company truck comes
down the road, we want to see
smiles, not jeers, and we're working
on it," said Bruce Williams, Group
W district sales and marketing man-ager.
Council members listened to
Group Ws improvements in the
areas of billing, system outages and
customer service Also discussed
was the possibility of alternatives to
the monthly charge for remote con-trol
units and adding a superstation
i
The most noticeable improvement
since an Oct 7 public hearing was in
customer service Group W reported
that service calls have dropped to
less than half the level during the
week before the hearing
The majority of the complaints, lo-cal
manager Andrew Moore said,
still have to do with fine tuning ard
customer education Traffic in
Group Ws office lobby also has
shrunk Barnes reported receiving
only four complaints, First Ward
Councilman Al Tacker said he re-ceived
npne.
The most noticeable unresolved is-sue
was mat of the $ 4 99 monthly
charge for remote controls that al-low
the viewer to change channels
without movmg to the set The serv-ice
was free before new converter
boxes were installed, and the in-creased
cost has been called an lUe--
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